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Just to be crystal clear this has not gotten bad fast. This has been a loud, obvious, well known issue at least since I was born in Arizona almost 30 years ago.

I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard sentiments to the effect of, “well you know there’s no water, so that’s why we’re building on a lot further up the basin and we’ll just have to drill the well deeper than the other folks.”



Even older. "Cadillac Desert" was published in 1986 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert .




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